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The News Junkie is also a football junkie, and proud of it, but I was left, after the Rose Bowl today, with a couple of real head-scratchers:
1: What's with the "G" commercial with Lil Wayne? Whose ad is that anyway? What did it mean?
2: How can Mark Sanchez read a defense so well, and would the result of the game have been different if a fifth quarter had been added? I only ask because the first half belonged to SC, but the second half, up until that last interception, belonged to Joe Pa's crew. I think that big "I" only happened because time was so short that the Nittany Lions' QB threw instead of allowing a sack (he was clobbered just as he threw). So I ask, only a little rhetorically, does anyone else think that if time hadn't been so short, the Nittany Lions might have caught up? I sure think so.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
After Christmas Sales - Two Big Reasons You Don't Want to Miss Out
The after Christmas Sales are just a day away. Deals will likely be better this year than they have been for many years. There are two reasons why this is not a sale day you want to miss: the first is to save money, and the second is to save the economy. Sounds dramatic, but it's true. Read on to find out why.
First off, you'll get some truly excellent deals. For example, according to Theresa Howard, writing for USA Today, Sears is offering up to 75% off electronics (and it is my experience that aside from speakers, the mark-up on electronics is not very high, so that may be below cost in some cases) and Toys R Us will offer up to 75% off certain toys. You'll find comparable deals all over. The worst thing about the sales will be, as usual, the after Christmas sale crowds.
And we should hope they're bad. That brings us to reason number two why we should all go bargain-snatching on Friday morning.
The very fact of many people shopping really bolsters the economy in the best possible way. And by now, it's the fact that so many people are staying home and nervously guarding their money that's continuing the economy's downswing. Less spending equals unhealthy businesses equals failures and bailouts and layoffs. More spending creates demand for more labor and reduces business insolvencies -- hence, lower taxes.
So, says I, shopping on Friday at the after Christmas sales is a downright patriotic thing to do. I, for one, intend to come home with a new Radio Shack radio controlled helicopter ... purely for research purposes, of course. Go thou and do likewise.
First off, you'll get some truly excellent deals. For example, according to Theresa Howard, writing for USA Today, Sears is offering up to 75% off electronics (and it is my experience that aside from speakers, the mark-up on electronics is not very high, so that may be below cost in some cases) and Toys R Us will offer up to 75% off certain toys. You'll find comparable deals all over. The worst thing about the sales will be, as usual, the after Christmas sale crowds.
And we should hope they're bad. That brings us to reason number two why we should all go bargain-snatching on Friday morning.
The very fact of many people shopping really bolsters the economy in the best possible way. And by now, it's the fact that so many people are staying home and nervously guarding their money that's continuing the economy's downswing. Less spending equals unhealthy businesses equals failures and bailouts and layoffs. More spending creates demand for more labor and reduces business insolvencies -- hence, lower taxes.
So, says I, shopping on Friday at the after Christmas sales is a downright patriotic thing to do. I, for one, intend to come home with a new Radio Shack radio controlled helicopter ... purely for research purposes, of course. Go thou and do likewise.
Santa Tracker 2008 - Can Anyone Explain this Mystery?
I recently searched the term "santa tracker 2008" and found a half-dozen sources for tracking info besides NORAD.
The Old Guy's already covered much of the earth, and I find it astounding. It's not just the travel speeds involved here, but also the physical prowess of descending chimneys, snarfing cookies and chugging milk, depositing merchandise (without delivery mistakes, I might add), stuffing stockings, and then making speedy, ninja-like egress from each home, scooping reindeer poop up off of each rooftop so as to not offend his constituents. And all this before he knocks off to get to the after-Christmas sales so he can buy gifts and stock up for next year. (You still think his labor force actually builds each toy?)
So the question is: How Do He Do It?
I will proffer my theory here, and I invite each of you to do the same:
Santa Tracker 2008 "High Speed Theory #1"
I believe that Santa Nicholas Claus is actually a multi-dimensional being who exists simultaneously in any four of 53 contiguous dimensions. He keeps himself obese so that he can divide his mass between five of those dimension-sets simultaneously, each then skinny as a rail and capable of descending chimneys without even getting soiled. Since one dimension in each set of four is a time-type dimension, he accelerates to near-relativistic speeds which, naturally, slows time, allowing him to accomplish even more in a given interval of time.
I have no evidence of this ... but I do believe.
What is your theory? Please share it here before you click some Christmas sale link or spike the eggnog. The world needs our combined wisdumb.
--News Junkie
The Old Guy's already covered much of the earth, and I find it astounding. It's not just the travel speeds involved here, but also the physical prowess of descending chimneys, snarfing cookies and chugging milk, depositing merchandise (without delivery mistakes, I might add), stuffing stockings, and then making speedy, ninja-like egress from each home, scooping reindeer poop up off of each rooftop so as to not offend his constituents. And all this before he knocks off to get to the after-Christmas sales so he can buy gifts and stock up for next year. (You still think his labor force actually builds each toy?)
So the question is: How Do He Do It?
I will proffer my theory here, and I invite each of you to do the same:
Santa Tracker 2008 "High Speed Theory #1"
I believe that Santa Nicholas Claus is actually a multi-dimensional being who exists simultaneously in any four of 53 contiguous dimensions. He keeps himself obese so that he can divide his mass between five of those dimension-sets simultaneously, each then skinny as a rail and capable of descending chimneys without even getting soiled. Since one dimension in each set of four is a time-type dimension, he accelerates to near-relativistic speeds which, naturally, slows time, allowing him to accomplish even more in a given interval of time.
I have no evidence of this ... but I do believe.
What is your theory? Please share it here before you click some Christmas sale link or spike the eggnog. The world needs our combined wisdumb.
--News Junkie
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